Wii U Hacked by WiiKey Team, All New Features Detailed

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ethomaz said:

osed125 said:

Is a proprietary disc drive, It can only play Wii U and Wii disc. For you to play Blue Ray discs on the Wii U will require to completely change the disc drive, and that will result in not being able to play Wii U games (unless you download them).

It is not... it is not a proprietary hardware... it is a proprietary software... the filesystem used in the Blu-ray discs... Wii U uses a standard Blu-ray driver but the firmware just permit read the proprietary format created by Nintendo.

Hack can change anything related a software... so they can make the Bly-ray driver read BD Movies.

According to this, the Wii U disc drive is a custom made drive based on the Blue Ray platform. I don't know if the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives, but if it does then yes, playing Blue Ray will be completely possible on the Wii U. Haven't found an article saying the Wii U uses Blue Ray drives (only that is based on Blue Ray), haven't really tried hard though.